Cupid-ity

We also had Mercury make an appearance this morning, but he is not registered on the website

Nine of the greater MIL area’s most determined and lovestruck male specimens made it out on a cold Valentine’s Day morning to try and determine just what rhymes with “Cupid-ity”.  Although some of the parts that follow may have been taken out of context, consider this a loose retelling of just what went on.

Warm-o-Rama

Forward jog, high knees, skipping, butt kicks, side shuffle between the parking lot cones x2, backwards jog, backward skipping, SSH, TS, Windmill, Cotton freakin’ cherry pickers and Mercans

The Thang

Run around school with stops at three stations along the way. Three corners, if you will

First lap

• 10 Pull-ups and 10 knee ups – OYO

• Decline mercans (10 I/C) and squats (15 I/C)

• Calf raises on steps (50) and CDD (10 I/C)

Second lap

• 10 Pull-ups and 10 knee ups – OYO

• Incline mercans and alternating leg step ups (10 I/C)

• Calf raises (50) and Freddy Mercury (20 I/C)

Third lap

• 10 Pull-ups and 10 knee ups – OYO

• 30 yard walking lunges on track

• Decline mercans and squats (10 I/C)

Run to the armory housed in the back of the suburban. Grab 2 bows, 5 arrows and a target with a heart that is marked with point values based on how close to the center of the heart the arrow hits it (in theory).  The archery competition leg is performed “biathlon style” similar to the Winter Olympics cross country skiing event with rifles that test marksmanship while the heart rate is elevated. In this spirit, perform 5 burpees before your turn to shoot two arrows. Winner is based on most points accumulated from the target and is crowned the most macho of all the Pax.

Moleskine

• Q thought long and hard about offering another competition based on his documented history of aggression with Dodgeball and Sumo wrestling, and his current status of being on double secret probation.The only redeeming factor of the event that allowed it to move forward was that it involved bringing weapons onto school property.

• Q’s first warm up shot seemed to be on target but managed to travel up the backstop grass area pretty far (El Tigre has bloodhound tendencies). This caused us to relocate the archery target to the back of the school against the brick wall, which was thankfully out of reach from the CMS security cameras

• Cupid carries two kinds of arrows, one with a sharp golden point, and the other with a blunt tip of lead. A person wounded by the golden arrow is filled with uncontrollable desire, but the one struck by the lead feels aversion and desires only to flee.

• While the results are still unofficial pending the results of the urinalysis, the heart target was never really at risk of either being filled with any sense uncontrollable desire or a desire to flee

• However, while there was no official hitting of the target, there were a few skips that landed just outside the target zone.

• Q noticed a deer passing in the meadow behind the school during the competition that demonstrated absolutely no concern from the humans due to the lack of archery marksmanship on display

• Think everyone would fully agree just what Cupid-ity rhymes with after our archery games exploits

• Welcome Juan (aka Mercury) to the Quarry. He is currently focused on “shedding a layer” in time for spring, and his F3 nickname has nothing to do with NFL running back Mercury Morris or a thermometer (the question was raised).

• We had a bit of a “ménage à trois squat” going on at one of the benches

• Beware of the ricochet from errant arrows hitting bricks behind the target

• Q needs some work on his ‘mercan form. Oktoberfest elected as official demonstrator for all exercises (besides squats)

• Prayers for Joe's father in law who passed away yesterday in Arizona

• Happy Valentine’s Day, Bee-Atches. Go out and remind those women today just how lucky they are, and also be sure to prevent others from telling them just how lucky you are, lest they finally figure it out (i.e., the jig is up…)

• Great work men!